Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods

partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also, every commercial passenger flight is also a felon. They are an apparatus released into the atmosphere, and affect weather/climate/intensity of sunlight by causing global dimming. Furthermore, they take the atmosphere in through their engines, and run it through a bunch of air conditioners to cool and filter the air for the cabin, expressly for the purpose of affecting the temperature and climate inside the aircraft. Checkmate.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am all for classifying pollution this way the law, as written, excludes it with this part:

    “…for the express purpose of affecting…”

    The express purpose of releasing pollution from jets is to provide thrust for transportation. The pollution is a byproduct and not part of the express purpose. An umbrella’s function of blocking the sun is an express purpose of the device.

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    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Very true, your example is airtight. Where mine gets a bit more in the weeds, is the air conditioners and filters in the cabin have an express purpose of manipulating the temperature and climate, that is their only purpose. Otherwise the air coming into the cabin would be so hot from being compressed in the engines everyone would die and all the machines onboard would overheat.

      It was a bit more technical, complicated, (air inside a plane in the atmosphere is still air from the atmosphere being manipulated!) and on the edge though, and not as easily conveyed as umbrellas.

      So perhaps, they should just ban the air conditioners on jets to get it technically correct?

      Kudos for yours though, it was to the point.

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      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        the air conditioners and filters in the cabin have an express purpose of manipulating the temperature and climate, that is their only purpose.

        I think you’ve accidentally uncovered a better example. Regular home A/Cs work by releasing hot air into the atmosphere:

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        To make the inside cool, they have to disperse hot air (which is definitely a chemical or substance) into the atmosphere. That is their express purpose.

        So by this law, A/C in Florida is banned.

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• ArrowMax@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just hold on very tight so you don’t release your sunblocking aparatus into the atmosphere.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If its on a pole stuck the ground exposed to the air, its already in the atmosphere and as it is not contained in some other bag or box, it is “released”. Pay your $100k fine citizen.

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• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You use sun block? Straight to jail.

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Misters are also illegal now,

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  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What about ladies?

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Slow clap

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• moseschrute@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Incredible

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